Musa Gusau replaces amaju Pinnic as NFF President

Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, yesterday was elected as the new president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
He polled a total of 39 votes to defeat Peterside Idah who scored just one vote.
Gusau won the ballot after the first ballot could not produce a clear winner.
In the earlier ballot, Musa Ibrahim Gusau scored the highest votes cast. He had 21 votes but could not be declared winner because he did not have 50 percent plus one votes (50%+1 votes) which amount to 22 votes and had to go into second ballot according to FIFA regulation.
The the first ballot, Gusau scored 21 voted, Abiodun Akinwunmi 12 votes, Peterside Idah one (1) vote, Abdullah Abba Yola, one (1) vote, and Shehu Dikko six (6) votes.
Other contestants are Dr. Chris Emeruwa, Amaze Uchegbulam, and David Doherty who did not score any votes.

However, before the second round of voting, Abiodun Akinwunmi and Abdullahi Yola and Shehu Dikko withdrew from the the race paving way for Peterside and Gusau to slug it out in the new ballot to determine a clear winner.
At the end, Gusau scored 39 votes while Peterside score just one vote.
Against this backdrop, Gusau was declared winner and President-elect of NFF.